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Building a Digital Gazetteer
for the Ottoman Empire
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Nir Shafir (UCLA + UCSD)
29.4.2016
the ottoman empire c. 1680
Digital Ottoman Platform (DOP)
Meeting 1:
June 15-21, 2015
Institute for
Advanced Study
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(upcoming, w/ focus
on gazetteer)
Meeting 2:
June 20-25,2016
Institute for
Advanced Study
Creating basic infrastructure and outlining best practices
for the data-driven projects on the Middle East and Balkans
Journal of Turkish and
Ottoman Studies
Association, 1:1-2 (2014)
Origins of the Project
Organizers-Amy Singer
-Chris Gratien
-Michael Polczynski
-Nir Shafir
Ottoman
History
Podcast
• ~23,000 Facebook Followers
• 10,000-15,000
downloads/episode
• Half in Turkey, half elsewhere
• Large public engagement on all
matters of Middle East history
www.ottomanhistorypodcast.com
Gazetteer
-Basic infrastructure for future work
-not present, needed for the Middle East
-Had discussions about basic issues of the database
structure, ontology, etc.
-temporal, historical gazetteer for Ottoman Empire
-start with currently available sources
-public involvement
-continuing discussion of integration into existing
gazetteers
Existing Sources 1: al-Thurayya(Partial) Gazetteer of Medieval Middle East
Maxim Romanov : maximromanov.github.io
Existing Project 2: Index Anatolicus
Semi-historical Gazetteer of Turkey
Sources 1: 3rd Military Mapping Survey of Austria-Hungary
Rumeli Eyaleti (1514-
1550), (T.C.
Başbakanlık Devlet
Arşivi Genel Müdürlüğü,
2013)
Sources 2: Lists of the Villages
in the Balkans c. 1530
Tahir Sezen, Osmanlı Yer
Adları, (Ankara, T.C.
Başbakanlık Devlet Arşivi
Genel Müdürlüğü, 2006)
Sources 3:Print Historical Gazetteers
Obstacles
-Lack of even basic information – e.g. province names and dates
-Languages: Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Greek, Armenian, Syriac, Slavic languages, Romanian, etc.
-Scripts: Arabic, Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian, Greek, Hebrew, Syriac
-Representation in Participation: heavy on Turkey and Greece
